Vital Consciousness by 86Era

After more than a month of holiday and time-out, I’m getting ready to start blogging about shit again. So here we go, a small post to kick off the new season.

You are aweing at the latest piece by Maxwell Lord, the man behind 86era.org, called “Vital Consciousness”. It’s been featured as a Daily Deviation on Deviantart today, so that is kinda where I found it. On his blog, Maxwell discloses more information about it, and I quote:

“Here’s some background information on the whole thing. Drawn on A4-sized craft paper sheet, using 0.20 & 0.25 mm Sakura Micron ink pens and two white Crown gel pens. Took me about three weeks to finish it — go figure how intricate it actually is… And no, I didn’t know how it’s gonna end up looking — I still kick it freestyle most of the times, although this time it was more or less symmetrical.”

He also notes that he’d love to hear feedback and how you’ve interpreted the drawing, so if you like you can always go there and drop this guy a bone. Moreover, the o-r-i-g-i-n-a-l piece is for sale, so if you like it a lot, please check out his blog again because it has a hyperlink to email him on it.

Whale Fetishist with an Empty Life

Newer Is Not Always Better

Today I categorized all my posts all over again, in more accurate categories referring to the craft exhibited, instead of the medium it was presented in. However, I also accidentially used the WordPress Category-To-Tag converter and it messed up. I lost all the categories and the tags from “aaaaaa” till “at night”. Sorry guys, maybe I’ll repair it sometime soon, when I’m bored really bad. Because it’s shitty work you know :(

Claire Morgan Loves Strawberries

Amaaaazing! A brilliant scene wonderfully composed by Claire Morgan. Resptetc! Hundreds, maybe thousands of strawberries and one crow make up such an interesting and beautiful picture. Two images after the jump…

The Transport Revolution

I was chatting away with a friend about driverless cars (or robot cars, w/e) the other day, and I just now stumbled upon an article on Baekdal.com that comes with a few pictures of one of those concept cars and a nice layout of the improvements in society it would bring. It said nothing about the downside of robot cars, but aside from the violent revolution it must have in order to establish itself among “manual” cars, I can’t think of very much. And all that somewhere around the year 2040.

Although I don’t find the whole image that it’s been given very attractive, I support the concept by attacking a very more pictures and a cool video demonstrating the severity of a shockwave traffic jam, by the University of Nagoya, after the jump!

Dave’s Adventure Girl

This photoseries by Dave Hill is so awesome I just have to post all six of them. More amazing photography available to awe at on his website!

Felix Götze, Motorockin’

A really cool rocking “horse” by Felix Götze :)

Martijn Bodde, the Ironwrencher

Awesome! Made by Martijn Bodde, a young genius from Holland people! But no seriously, he’s a good friend but I never expected him to be so good at making sculptures. This really wowed me and you have to admit those eerie metal skeletonish soldiers combined with a strong historic image (which is also quite applicable to the piece) are indeed quite photogenetic.Find these photos, more of em, a youtube recording and the man himself (Laughingman) in the topic where he posted his sh… stuff. Another image after the jump.

Emma Watson, drool

My compliments to the beautiful lady Emma Watson for sharing her grace and physique with an audience that has devoured many. Behold, Emma Watsons most recent “pantyflash” at the movie premiere for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood something, manifested by mother’s forces of nature while fulfilling her good and generous duty as a public figure. She is sexy in an advertising kind of way, even at that weather. Plus the photos are more then enough to figure out what she would look like naked.

6 Friggin more photos after the jump!!!!11“

Last Day Dream

Is this what the 42 seconds trough the white tunnel looks like? Heavenly video by Chris Milk (again) for the 42 Second Dream Festival 2009

Who’s Gonna Save My Soul

Allright, a music video directed by Chris Milk for Gnarls Barkley’s “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul” means Good Shit. Next time I’m getting dumped I’m probably thinking of that video. It’s an entertaining collage of short story and powerful emotion, and the ending caught me the most. The ending caught me. How could I not post this?

Features Gnarls and Danger Mouse (that was his name right?) as the cooks of the restaurant, for about half a second

Sego Y Ovbal

Hola senores y senoritas,
Check out this stuff by Sego and Ovbal (I’m not really sure if it’s one or two guys), street art inspired eye candy. I’d love to tell you a whole lot about it but my Mexican is not very good at this moment. I think Sego’s blogspot, flickr, fotolog and myspace profiles could get you somewhere, and I think Project Bionika has something to do with it. Also, you may use the aforementioned hyperlinks to browse for more sweetness of this man/these men.

Three more images after the jump! Somebody get this guy his own website!

Peter Funch

Photos of New York by Peter Funch. The guy has a talent for photographing peculiar scenarios of big city life. Two more images after the jump.

Fernando Vicente

Ahh, Fembots, no? Check out these illustrations by Fernando Vicente. Three more images after the jump, or check out this guy’s blog full of his drawings, real yummy!

Robert Longo, Pilots and Sharks

Robert Longo really hits the spot with these charcoal paintings, the first belonging to a series called “YingXiong” (Heroes), and the other to something similar called “Perfect Gods”, from 2009 and 2007 respectively. If you’re digging it zoofff your ass to the guy’s portfolio because he’s got a whole lot more craftsmanship like this. Also, hit the jump for 3 more pics.

God Of Small Things

Microscope, music, an intervalometer and a canon camera. Nice! A film by Chris Abbas and Sumit Seru. As Elomenope explains to Hayden on the Vimeo page:

Hi Hayden,

You’re right, the 30D only shoots stills. However, we set the camera on continuous shooting mode which enabled us to shoot at 5 frames per second. We used an intervalometer to engage the shutter release automatically, so our hands were free to manipulate what was on the microscope slide and focus. The intervalometer can also be used to take photos at predetermined intervals which makes it GREAT for time lapse work. It’s essentially a button-pushing robot monkey.

We shot over 5000 images, then brought all of them into After Effects at 24 frames per second. When played back at this frame rate as a sequence, it looks like video. Ta da!

I hope that answers your question!

James Palumbo and Tomas

Slightly disturbing promotional video for Tomas, a book by James Palumbo.

Palumbo is best known as being the founder of the nightclub and brand, Ministry of Sound (now MSHK Group). Since its conception in 1991, the company has grown from a nightclub in London’s Elephant and Castle to a global multi-media business. MSHK is also the largest independent record company in the world. Less known are Palumbo’s interests in property, in which he has been active since his late teens. – Wikipedia

Erik Johansson

There was a buzz about Swedish photographer Erik Johansson’s creative publishings on the internet as of late, and I stumbled upon his photomanips once again. And now I know why. Check out his delicious slideshow portfolio. Two more screenshots of his website after the jump.

Bad Panda

Alexis Marcou manages to depict a panda in a menacing yet strangely sterile and almost in a mecha kind of way. Hmm.. His portfolio is great and the site is really neat, worth checking out from the comforts of your desk. Hint, the navigation links appear at the bottom of the page. Also, you can buy some of his stuff on ClickforArt, which is where notcot redirected me.

Guillaume Blanchet, Laika

Guillaume Blanchet’s video “Laika” is a very fun stop-motion animation with matches. When I first saw the video, I thought it had something to do with Laika the spacedog. Trentemoller’s got a great music track with a great video featuring Laika and her unfortunate fate. And as learned from Rice Candy, it actually does, since this is the promotional video for a supposedly famous bar in Montreal, “Laika“. Nice!

Zurich Chamber Orchestra

I found three beautifully drawn and quite clever anatomical gems that serve in an advertising campaign for the Zurich Chamber Orchestra on the fubiz.

Simone Decker’s Giant Gums

Rad! Simone Decker’s website is awful though, I’ll link you right trough her project page for “Chewing In Venice” just because it’s so fugly.

Kid Koala’s Basin Street Blues

Kid Koala just shat on your principles of music. Do view in “HQ”, it improves on audio mostly :)

the Banksy Show has Opened

Banksy’s exhibition at the Bristol Museum has opened as of 10 AM GMT today, Saturday 13th of June 2009. Come and see, admission free!

the Doodle Bar, London

I thought of that before. A bar (or as I imagined it, a dutch coffeeshop) where you may doodle all over the furniture and walls. I wouldn’t go as far as to let the public draw on my staff because that’s a step-stone to physical violation and sexual harassment. Anyway, it would indeed be great to (smoke a joint, ) drink some coca cola and hang out at a doodle bar where you can actually do it. Check out the video, it’s had some nice result, the whole lot of doodles is actually quite interesting to look at (though ofcourse on a close-up its usually less impressive). Just give it a few months, there will grow masterpieces that you will cherish for the lifetime of your coffeeshop… err, bar.

I have a doodle table now, though. It’s huge, and my little niece really enjoyed drawing on it. Anyway, for more info go to thedoodlebar.com, or hit the jump for a really nice image of a bald guy smoking the chronic in a coffeeshop.

Titty Interlude

Still alive. Model unknown.

Rabbit and the Moon

An odd few photos I found on stumbler iamthestatic’s page. Behold, the Rabbit and the Moon, by tod kapke @ Behance Network

Audrey Kawasaki

Man am I glad I ran into Audray Kawasaki in cyberspace again. This is too delicious! Feast your eyes on her great portfolio!

Hakuchi Illustrations

I’ve had a printed copy of the first image ripped from a copy of Vice Mag on my wall ever since I moved out of my parental home. It kicks ass. All of these are done by Hakuchi Manga Illustration. It’s too bad I don’t know japanese or I would have checked out the portfolio.

Four more delicious images after the jump,

Vania Zouravliov

Brilliant, no? Vania Zouravliov, an illustrator guy from Russia. Clearly has an eye for gothic scenery. Extraordinary detail and symbolism, a lust to the eye. Apparantly a child prodigy who at age 13 roamed the world on tour for live illustrations. Check out his portfolio at his current employer’s website, BigActive.

Catalina Bartolome

Catalina Bartolome is a photographer chick from Argentina, that has a talent for veiling the human physique in ways that tickle interest. You are welcome to the muy comprehensible and generous online portfolio of the lady, or hit the jump for two more photos if you’re only half interested ;)

The Pharcyde and Spike Jonze

The Pharcyde present to you, “Drop”! Watch the clip and you’ll find reverse recording are a sure shot if you’re aiming for weird laws of physics (?) Directed by Spike Jonze, who deserves a lot of pats on the back for working for amongst others the Beastie Boys (I can see a resemblance with the Pharcyde video and eg. Intergalactic, how they’re all monkeying around a moving camera), Daft Punk, the Chemical Brothers, and ofcourse Jackass. This video is from 1996, bytheway.

Terry Richardson

“Autoportaits”, Terry Richardson’s work, breathes a smexy atmosphere for Vogue Homme International. Five (5) more images after the jump,

Dodge Vapor and Ford X-1

The US Air Force commisioned two custom made cars the other day. This is what rolled out. A Ford Mustang “X-1″, and a Dodge Challenger “Vapor”, with some kick-ass cockpit interior. Two more images after the jump,

Code-X Yacht

Normally I don’t give a fuck about yachts, but this one’s pretty nice I guess. What it’s conceiver Code-X says about the yacht:

The uncompromisingly designed yacht, built by international leading experts, symbolises a dream come true.
CODE-X unites radical purism, the optimal benefit of renewable energy and the sheer power of a racing machine in one boat.

A flexible solar hybrid propulsion system enables both quiet, environmentally friendly cruising in ports and coastal areas as well as the pleasure of high speeds on open waters!

Silly, I thought “virtual anchors” that steer your engine in a way to maintain your geographical position no matter winds or currents, used more energy than one of those iron things. On the other hand, it’s a genious invention and if you’re rich enough to buy this baby, you probably don’t give much fucks about the environment anyway

Two more images after the jump,

Birdy Nam Nam – The Parachute Ending

A videoclip for Birdy Nam Nam’s “The Parachute Ending” has appeared, a track off their new album “Manual For Successful Rioting”. Enjoy! Don’t forget to click the “HQ” button.

Geliografic

More oilpaintings by Geliografic, on Geliografic’s portfolio :)

Microsoft Natal

Microsoft project Natal, in a nutshell, is an Xbox with a 3D camera and a microphone attached to it. That setup should be able to compute the position and movements of your body, facial recognition and voice recognition. Swing your arms to navigate trough menus or mimick an action you want your character in whatever game to perform. Anyway, check out the video.

It looks quite promising and I’m sure I’d enjoy it really much too if I could play on the newest of new gaming consoles together with my model family and hot girl next door. Now if only Microsoft would link the whole thing up to a 3D helmet or something we’d really have one kick-ass game console.

Although the trailer looks really great, I’m also really saddened that it’s never going to be that great IRL. For one, I have no model family. Secondly, hi-tech stuff like that is going to be trouble (looking at Xbox’s previous problems, blu-ray lenses in playstations and the shitty controller reception a Wii tends to give me). Thirdly, Xbox still has no sign of guts even in this video. I hope this isn’t going to be a console for golfing, snowboarding, skating, surfing, mountainclimbing, quizzing and dancing, because I want one for shooting, hiding, bombing and murder.

Playmate of the Month

Playmate of the month June, I don’t know which year nor who the model is, but I enjoyed her nonetheless

Inconnu

Inconnu is a fashion collective of a bunch of (dutch) students, designers, and by the looks of it photographers too. It basically battles against the uniformity you find in clothing stores, and tries to take out the factor where you only buy stuff you’d buy yourself. How about an experiment? Throw a store’s inventory in a shuffle-machine and you receive a designer pearn (actually a shirt, or “canvas”) that may be your wardrobe’s next hall-of-famer. Does that make sense? What if I told you that you buy a shirt from Inconnu, and received a canned package at your door a few days later, which is actually a surprise T-shirt. You don’t know what exactly you’re going to get, besides ofcourse you can be pretty sure it’s a T-shirt from one of Inconnu’s designers. If you haven’t got the guts to spend some dough on this you’re probably not worth the guts Inconnu’s designers are showing.

One of the downsides of having the hottest design before its actually well in the market is that it’s not widely available. Inconnu is organizing *the* sale on Sunday the 14th of june. The location is “Canvas op de 7e” in the old Volkskrant building in Amsterdam. It opens at 12:00 and nobody knows when it’s going to end. There are 144 shirts for the occasion, so get there by 11:00 if you want to grab yourself one o’ them thangs, orrr drop in anytime for the additional bonus:

The sale is accompanied by a photo exposition that depicts the inspirational mood of diversity, individuality, guts and originality of the collection. There’ll be a DJ and a VJ present to keep you from drooling on the cotton.

http://www.inconnu.nl/
June 14th ‘09, 12:00 – …
8th floor old Volkskrantbuilding
Wibautstraat 150 (side entrance)
Amsterdam

Rip ‘N Dip Clip

Ryan O’ Connor, the skater, appears in a cool video edited by the real star of the skit, Gabriel Molina. And the whole thing is actually about Rip ‘n Dip clothing, which is apparantly a clothing brand.

KOZO Tubed Lighting

Kickass lamps and bulbs from metal tubing that would, ofcourse, normally be used to transport gases and liquids. The guys from kozo-lamp.com originally sold these lamps on Etsy, from their account Design2009. Grab one while you can, because this is russian quality. Well, from Tel Aviv actually.

Iwase Yoshiyuki

Speaking of great photographers, check out Iwase Yoshiyuki! A tasteful blend of asian grace and old modern photography :)

Eugenio Recuenco

Eugenio Recuenco’s portfolio never seizes to amaze. His portfolio is sizeable but also comfortable to browse trough, so I can definately recommend it. Moreover you can tell a man has made it when he’s got his own article on Wikipedia. Apparantly our guy photographs for magazines like Vogue, is in high demand but also a pain in the ass to work with, because supposedly he’s very stubborn. However, if with that trait he’s managed to produce such dazzling photographs, I consider that a good thing :)

Four more images after the jump,

Brock Davis’s Shattered Art

Brock Davis shows us what are usually “unbreakable” objects look like when they’re scattered across the floor like a fallen crystal swan. Also, he won the award for one of the longest domain names I’ve seen in a while. Two more images after the jump :)

Michael Steele’s Cluster Series

A series of paintings with one theme in common, clusters. Or whatever those are. The man with the familyname I would have picked if I got to choose says the following:

“With this new series of artworks that I have created as part of the “cluster” series, I have been able to explore various styles, techniques and mediums by portraying what I see around me and then present these influences artisticly. These influences that I have portrayed come from various avenues, such as the media, memories, people, textures, technology and so on.

A Cluster to me resembles images or objects grouped together to form something larger. I feel this gives images or objects a stronger presence rather then being displayed by themselves, creating a much more dynamic experience for the viewer.”

Three more images after the jump, but the whole of it ofcourse on display on Michael Steele’s portfolio.

Adriana Lima, Thank You

You can hear him thinking, *bleep, brain overload* [exit]

Gamerchick, gamernude

Just keeping the soul alive :)

Nam Graphic Collective

Nam is a japanses graphic collective originally established by garphic designer Takayuki Nakazawa and photographer Hiroshi Manaka. Currently over ten artist from various backgrounds are belonging to Nam. They are searching for possibilities in the world of visual arts, and exploring the art based on their theme “A Fantasy In Life”.

Doberman Studio

There’s more where that came from.

David OReilly

David OReilly’s bizarre entry to PPST!3, a “collaborative film series”. Also worth checking out. This film features a pretty pussycat and Walt Disney’s head.

Logyu/Milk/Ilka

Works of art by Logyu, that’s a link to her Myspace page. She’s got quite a couple more drawings up thankfully. Found via DieziMedia. Three more masterpieces after the jump,

Halo 3: Believe!

If you ever liked gritty futuristic battlefields, mech designs, slowmotion or movies where time stops and you can just walk trough the scenery, you’ll like this promo for Halo 3. I reckon it’ll tickle your fancy when you’re into Halo 3, too. Click here to hover about on one of those battlefields, take your own screenshots (like the ones I’ve posted in this post), or make use of the occasional 360 degrees views, look at that explosion a little longer or just enjoy sitting comfortable behind your desk.

It will ask for your location and birthdate, but that’s it.

Halo 3: Believe

James Clar’s Mouse

How cool is that? More images after the jump, and put your hands together for James Clar :)

Her Morning Elegance

Aw at the stop-motion music video for “Her Morning Elegance” for Oren Lavie, which reminded me of the recently posted “Sorry I’m Late”. Music and video with a sunny feel to it :) Be sure to click on “HQ” for improved video quality, it only adds to the details ;)

Sorry I’m Late

Sorry I’m Late is a stop-motion video by Tomas Mankovsky telling the tale of a boy that had to get home soon on one day but was late, what behappened to him and why he wasn’t believed. Funny to watch and maybe inspiring to one day do the same yourself?

I haven’t found it on Youtube yet, but Tomas’s got a good quality version (Quicktime) on his page, so that’s where you can watch the film : )

Oh and if you liked the film, the making-of is also very interesting to see, or hit the jump for a really quick glance :)

Soy Tu Aire by Labuat

Soy Tu Aire by Labuat sports an interactive music video. You control the line on the canvast by moving your mouse around. Your digital ink blotters and comes to life as you go along. It really feels like you’re in a moving car riding within reach of a giant glass surface that has little dew in it where you can draw in. Weeeeee!

Play that shit! *
may take a little while to load, and also, it initially denied a connection on my computer so if it doesn’t work, refresh a couple of times!

Monsieur Qui

Nice drawings by Monsieur Qui! When I was browsing his site I also found the following matchboxes, why didn’t *I* ever think of that?? They’re so goody :P

Realistic Graffiti by Ma’claim

Some nice pretty photorealistic by Ma’claim :)

Lani Imre

There’s more where that came from, kudos to Lani Imre for painting such nice paintings! I got it via a webshop via notcot :)

The Uncomfortable Moment

The DeviantArt prodigy ~skaffa does it again after a long while, this time with a painting in his distinctive style with his mind on holland’s (two) finest. I’ll spoil no more, look at the deviation page for more info and the deviator’s page for everything.

Perrier

Check out this advertisement for Nestle Water’s Perrier. I never heard of it but the ad is pretty cool. Photos are done by Jean-Yves Lemoigne, who’s done quite some more interesting work.

Don Hertzfeldt’s Genre

Don Hertzfeldt’s “Genre” is a very comical short that will inform you about various genres of the art world and teaches us what happens when we give everything a label. Check it out because it is very well done, I LOL’d at 0:52 AM, while I rarely LOL at all. Very well structured and executed, with patience that I have respect for.

You may also already know Don of his other work, like Rejected Cartoons. Check out his Wikipedia page. Even his works have their own wiki’s, respect that! :P There’s also his Bitter Films website but to be frank it’s a pain to the eye and a little boring.

The Beautiful Do

(NSFW)

So while discovering the recent nude photos of Rihanna, I stumbled upon something much better. Now I’m not saying Rihanna is not a very pretty girl, because she is. And judging from the photo, she really really is. But what tickled my fancy was a beautiful Playboy photoshoot of which I actually bought a copy on a lucky evening. (That sounds bad). The subject is the lovely 1981 Do, her artist name. She is a dutch singer and generally talented hot female human being. Ladies and gentlemen, without further adue, I present to you most of the Playboy Shoot! NSFW, if you couldn’t guess already.

What. I can’t blog about women? She’s even got her own Wiki.

Bathtub IV

A truely unsettling blend of reality and toy helicopters, god, I don’t even know how this guy did it. But the video is very interesting to look at, it’s even beautiful, and it even has a story. Recommended by yours truely, though created ofcourse by Keith Loutit. Music is “Clementine” by Megan Washington (thought I’d mention).

For those interested, apparantly Keith used a combination of tilt-shift and time-laps photography/video magic. I’m still figuring out what that means, but if anybody could enlighten me, please :)

Money Love

Money makes money, I know that much. Check out this odd commercial for Bontrust, made by Optix Digital Pictures. For the HD quality, check out the original youtube page.

Pain And Suffering

Who said I couldn’t be blogging about miserable people? Check out this photo, it tells a thousand tales. It’s been sitting on my harddrives troughout a few computers, so I really couldn’t tell you where I first found it :)

Firekites – Autumn Story

Chalk animated music video for “Autumn Story” by the Firekites directed by Lucinda Schreiber and Yanni Kronenberg.

Jim Skullgallery

If you like skulls a little you’ll probably like what Jim did to make things a little more interesting. Apparantly Jim is more fixated on skulls than you are because his gallery is 100% bone and umm.. rope. Worth checking out for more!

Omegle.com

This post is about the website Omegle.com.

How often do you strike up a conversation with a complete stranger? Not often. How often do you strike up a conversation with a complete stranger possibly on the other end of the world. Boys, girls, transsexuals and admittedly perverts.

Omegle. takes the whole IRC thingy a step further. This is a private conversation between two completely anonymous entities on the internet, you are identified simply as “You” and “Stranger”. Ofcourse you can always ask, and wether or no you believe the answer is to be found out during the conversation. Quite interesting things pop up, and if you feel like you’ve made a fool out of yourself you can always leave without a trace. Seriously. You’ll never talk to those people again, unless you add them on MSN or whatever.

First on-site click action and one-click exit. Give it a shot.

nude by ~hognav2t

I found it quite an intriguing drawing. Looks like fineliner (aka sharpie) and paint markers on page 194 of a book about the ins and outs of a few islands near Canada. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, nude by ~hognav2t!

5 Minutes To Kill Yourself: Family Reunion

I don’t usually play much flash games, but this one caught on when I was surfing on Who Killed Bambi. Quite a weird website that one I tell you.

You get a call from your grandmother. The family reunion has started an hour ago and you’re supposed to be there. The purpose of the game is to kill yourself within 5 minutes, thus avoiding the worst of it. However, that does not stop you from using your familymembers (among other objects) to commit suicide. Piss on electrical equipment or devour the contents of a trash bin, anything to save your precious conscience from quality time with the family. Play the game and tell me what you think!

point99 by ~Lora8

point99 by ~Lora8, so dust off your DeviantArt accounts and give that girl a pat on the back :)

Tony vs. Paul

I guess I found this one so long ago I don’t even remember where I first saw it. Probably youtube. Anyway, I likes the video and I loves the music. As a matter of fact I’ve had the track on my iPod since I first saw the vid. Mr. Tony and mr. Paul have been on TV as well to explain some more about this beauty.

Their website! (felt like the good thing to do)

Fleet Foxes: Mykonos

The original video is here, but I found it here :) The music that you hear is Fleet Foxes, with their track “Mykonos”.